US has built 800+ military bases around the world but won’t build a wall on its own border. When did a strong border become debatable? When did taxpayers want to finance weak, porous borders? Controlling one’s border is fundamental to nationhood-Robert Bridges, Strategic Culture

In 1931, during the Great Depression, the US government began construction of the Hoover Dam, one of the most ambitious civil engineering projects ever attempted. Employing thousands of US laborers, some 100 of whom reportedly lost their lives in the course of the project, the dam is mind-boggling due its sheer size, rivaling that of the pyramids.

At 726 feet tall, the wedge-shaped structure is 660 ft (200 m) thick at its base, narrowing to 45 ft (14 m) at the top, which provides enough room to accommodate a highway connecting Nevada and Arizona. The project required millions of cubic feet of concrete – said to be enough to pave a two-lane highway from San Francisco to New York – and tens of millions of pounds of steel.

To this day, much of the complex remains under heavy wraps due to “security concerns.” Yet this behemoth cash cow continues to suck money dry from government coffers; in 2012, just several years after its construction was finished, the Obama administrationrequested and got more than $100 million for a “massive” upgrade to the compound.

Speaking of Iraq, which suffered military conquest at the hands of US-led forces starting in 2003, the United States also managed to find ways to construct some 900+ military bases around the world. Needless to say, this is no cheap venture, and helps to explain why the US military budget is approaching $1 trillion dollars annually – more than China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, India, France, United Kingdom, and Japan combined.

Just this week, part of the South American ‘caravan’ that the US mainstream media had called a “myth” has turned up on America’s doorstep in the Mexican town of Tijuana. Images show dozens of young men straddling the top of the border fence with none of the US troops that Trump activated in sight. Now, if the US Democrats had their way, these thousands of illegal aliens would be awarded amnesty and shepherded into ‘sanctuary cities’ where these individuals would slip undetected into the fabric of American society. And for those – including the US president – who voice opposition to this invasion, they are casually branded as racist or a white supremacist. However, the real motivation for the Democrats behind such ad hominem attacks is raw political opportunism.

The Democrats are actually building part of their platform on awarding asylum to illegals, and despite the fact that many of these people are not suffering political repression back home. In fact, most of these people just want to improve their financial well-being. In other words, the great majority of these new arrivals – as was established by on-the-ground interviews –are economic migrants.

What the US mainstream media fails to inform the American public is that the overwhelming majority of people from this so-called ‘caravan’ are young, male and oftentimes dangerous.This much was confirmed by Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch, one of the only Western journalists to actually travel to South America and report on the march of migrants firsthand. In addition to reporting that, in his estimation, some 98 percent of the migrants were young and male, he added that some of them bore tattoos that identified them as members of the notorious MS13 international crime gang. To get a better understanding of this caravan and the true makeup of its participants I would encourage the reader to watch Farrell’s interview in its entirety.

Republican Rep. Jim Jordan said this week that the Trump White House has one last chance– with a lame duck Republican Congress still in place – to secure funding for the US-Mexican border wall.”…

[Ed. note: Rep. Jim Jordan saying it’s “last chance” for wall funding is a joke. Candidate Trump never once said the wall was contingent on congressional funding, approval, or anything else. Never once. A GOP House was never going to approve it. Never. GOP wants open borders even more than Democrats. If Candidate Trump had even once said the wall was subject to congressional approval, he likely would never have been elected president. Everyone knows no congress would ever have approved it. The entire political class is strictly open borders. Hillary would be president.]

(continuing): ““We should be focused on that one main thing over the next several weeks as we still have a few weeks left while Republicans control all of government,” Jordan said in an interview.

Time is ticking like a bomb for the American people to restore control over its southern border, and there is no good excuse for not completing this monumental project. Americans should not be cowered by accusations of ‘racism,’ when the country itself has been founded on the blood, sweat and tears of migrants throughout history. Much of the so-called racism that exists in America is a figment of the media’s hyperactive imagination. Nor should the expense of the project – considering the price tag for so many other US adventures and misadventures, up to and including wars abroad – be a reason for preventing it.

Added: So called caravans of mostly young Central American men have reached Tijuana and will shortly enter the US. They say they’re just looking for good jobs or want more education. So they’re no different than a non-English speaking person already in the US who wants a better job and is currently homeless and collecting welfare or some form of US government funding. Mexico has already offered asylum to many:

The US political class eagerly awaits them and hopes for millions more Central Americans. Now that midterm elections are over, US troops sent to the border–just to help out, to build camps for thousands of Central Americans, not to protect the border–are leaving and returning home. Apparently Trump isn’t even US president, since his staff is free to publicly “reject” his requests. As one Deep State thug says below, the important thing is to keep “commerce” flowing through entry points: